Ethnomusicologist and Doctor in Social and Cultural Anthropology, beneficiary of a scholarship for University Teacher Training (FPU) from the Ministry of Universities of the Spanish Government; His doctoral thesis, entitled Música i etnicitat a la Moldàvia Romanesa. Discursos identitaris i estructures musicals (UAB, 2017), analyses the role played by different musical genres as symbols of identity in a post-socialist context, specifically in the region of Moldova (Romania);
Professional Degree in Music, specialising in Classical Piano (2004, CSMMB)
Higher Degree in Music, specialising in Ethnomusicology (2009, ESMUC)
Master's Degree in Ethnographic Research, Anthropological Theory and Intercultural Relations (2011, UAB)
PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2017, UAB)
His interests include the study of ethnicity, politics and interculturality and how these are conveyed through the musical phenomenon; Recently he has focused his research on epistemological and methodological issues in contemporary ethnomusicology;
Lines of research
- Music and ethnicity
- Methodology and research techniques of ethnomusicology and anthropology of music
- Music and communism, socialism and post-socialism;
- Music and religiosity;
- Music and oral tradition;
Revilla Gútiez, S. (2019). Lo tradicional en la Etnomusicología. Miradas desde el Sur de Europa y América Latina. In J. de la Creu Godoy Tomàs & Miquel Alsina i Tarrés (Eds.), Música Tradicional, Educación y Patrimonio. Investigaciones etnomusicológicas y educación (pp. 71-85). Girona: Documenta Universitaria.
Revilla Gútiez, S. (2018). Strengthening National Ties: Muzica Populara in Moldova Region, Romania. In J. Martí i Pérez & S. Revilla Gútiez (Eds.), Making Music, Making Society (pp. 61–94). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Revilla Gútiez, S. (2017). Música y etnicidad en la Moldavia rumana. Discursos identitarios y estructuras musicales. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Revilla Gútiez, S. (2016). Ethnic Repesentations in Moldova (Romania): Transmission and Dissemination of Traditional Music. In E. S. Mellish, N. Green, & M. Zakic (Eds.), Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe: New Scopes of Research and Action. Fourth Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe (pp. 185–193). Petnica (Belgrade): ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music).
Revilla Gútiez, S. (2013). Música y relaciones interétnicas. El fenómeno sonoro como herramienta de demarcación identitaria en un contexto postsocialista. Perifèria. Revista de Recerca i Formació En Antropologia, 18(2), 200–228.
Revilla Gútiez has been a guest researcher at the Institute 13: Ethnomusicology of the Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria), at the University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" of Iaşi (Romania) and at the Universitatea Sapientia of Miercurea Ciuc (Romania); She has collaborated as a pre-doctoral researcher in the consolidated Egolab-GRAFO group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and is coordinator and co-founder of the Ethnomusicology Working Group of the Catalan Institute of Anthropology (ICA), with which she organises academic and informative activities on a monthly basis; She was co-editor and contributor to the book Making Music, Making Society (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018) and has coordinated and directed the 1st Conference in Ethnomusicology and Anthropology of Music (UAB, 2015).
She is currently Lecturer in the Musicology degree at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and lecturer in the Musicology degree at the Escuela Superior de Música de Cataluña;